"There weren't a lot of people using the Internet to date back then," she says.

"I had to go to Kinko's and scan in a picture of myself for my profile." Soon after that, she was on a date.

Compared with eight years ago, online daters in 2013 are more likely to actually go out on dates with the people they meet on these sites.

Some 66% of online daters have gone on a date with someone they met through an online dating site or app, up from 43% of online daters who had done so when we first asked this question in 2005.

It’s not so easy to sound that way when you’re composing your online-dating profile or talking with a potential date over email.

Checking your message for punctuation or spelling errors is worth the time; your goal is to position yourself as a catch.Consider these dos and don'ts when writing: it spoke volumes: He didn’t have confidence or enough self-esteem to be truthful about his height,” recalls Elizabeth, 39, a flight attendant based in Newark, NJ.In the end, honesty lets you shine because it shows who you really are.We refer to these individuals throughout this report as “online daters,” and we define them in the following way: Taken together, 11% of all American adults have done one or both of these activities and are classified as “online daters.” In terms of demographics, online dating is most common among Americans in their mid-20’s through mid-40’s.Some 22% of 25-34 year olds and 17% of 35-44 year olds are online daters.